WS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transphobia, Neocolonialism, Racialization

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WS102
• Professor: Sasha Cocarla

Document Summary

Anti-essentialist: there is no inherent quality opposite of essentialism: application: the way you raise children - gender and race understand that gender is a social construct it"s learnt through culture and history. Gender and race as social constructions: race: hierarchies around it social construct not biological social category vs biological category it is still real with real effects these differences just come from skin colour not biology. Key: institutionalized power and oppression: racism: direct consequence of essentialism. Racialization process through which certain bodies get invested with specific meaning that designate them to a specific racial group. !2 skin colour, body type, behaviours individual things become abandoned with social categories. How people of colour are made hyper-visible while whiteness is made invisible. By rendering whiteness as the cultural norm or status quo, it often becomes invisible and thus erases it"s cultural power and privilege. Yasmin jiwani discourses of denial: mediations of race, gender, and violence (2006)